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Africa faces new migration shifts under US deportation deals

Chrispin Mwakideu
September 2, 2025

US President Donald Trump is deporting migrants to Uganda, Eswatini, South Sudan and Rwanda. But what do the deals he has struck with these countries mean for the deportees and Africans themselves.

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